Method of control of a wireless communication unit and a wireless communication unit

Abstract

A method of remote control of a wireless communication unit ( 300 ) operating in a communication network ( 100 ) having the steps of creating a message ( 202 ) to be delivered to said wireless communication unit ( 300 ) by a Content Provider ( 104 ); creating at least one instruction ( 204 ) for said wireless communication unit ( 300 ) by said Content Provider ( 104 ); delivering ( 210 ) said message and said instruction to said wireless communication unit ( 300 ); processing ( 222 ) said instruction by said wireless communication unit.

1 . A method of remote control of a wireless communication unit operating in a communications network comprising: 
 a Content Provider creating a message in a stream having a parameter that allows for identification of the Content Provider and for identification of a content of the message to be delivered to said wireless communication unit;    said Content Provider creating at least one instruction for said wireless communication unit;    delivering said message and said instruction to said wireless communication unit;    said wireless communication unit processing aid instruction.    
     
     
         2 . The method according to  claim 1 , wherein said instruction is contained in at least one predefined field of a protocol used for delivering said message.  
     
     
         3 . The method according to  claim 1 , wherein said instruction is embedded in said message.  
     
     
         4 . The method according to  claim 3 , wherein said instruction is embedded in said message using a Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) method.  
     
     
         5 . The method according to  claim 3 , wherein said instruction is embedded as a text in a textual portion of the message.  
     
     
         6 . The method according to  claim 1 , wherein said instruction identifies a parameter that allows for identification of the Content Provider and for identification of the content of the message and an action to be executed.  
     
     
         7 . The method according to  claim 6 , wherein the action comprises erasing from a memory of said wireless communication unit previous messages from the Content Provider having the content.  
     
     
         8 . The method according to  claim 6 , wherein the action comprises rendering of said message on said wireless communication unit.  
     
     
         9 . The method according to  claim 8 , wherein in said step of rendering at least one element of a Man Machine Interface of said wireless communication unit is replaced with a second element and said second element is delivered with said message.  
     
     
         10 . The method according to  claim 6 , further characterized by a Multimedia Message Service Center (MMSC) processing said instruction before delivering said message and said instruction to the wireless communication unit.  
     
     
         11 . The method according to  claim 10 , wherein the processing comprises erasing from a memory of said MMSC previous messages addressed to said communication unit from the Content Provider having the content.  
     
     
         12 . The method according to  claim 1 , comprising a step of authentication and authorization of the Content Provider.  
     
     
         13 . The method according to  claim 1 , wherein retrieval of the message and processing of the instruction is performed automatically.  
     
     
         14 . The method according to  claim 1 , wherein the message is retrieved automatically and the instruction is processed after confirmation by a user of said wireless communication unit.  
     
     
         15 . The method according to  claim 1 , wherein the user is prompted to retrieve the message and the instruction is processed by said wireless communication unit automatically after said retrieval.  
     
     
         16 . The method according to  claim 1 , wherein the user is prompted to retrieve the message and the instruction is processed after confirmation by a user of said wireless communication unit.  
     
     
         17 . The method according to  claim 1 , wherein said message is a Multimedia Message Service (MMS) message.  
     
     
         18 . The method according to  claim 17 , wherein said instruction is contained in two predefined fields of said MMNS message, wherein a first field indicates the stream and second field indicates an action.  
     
     
         19 - 22 . (canceled)  
     
     
         23 . A wireless communication unit comprising: 
 a receiver section for receiving messages over-the-air in a stream having a parameter that allows for identification of a Content Provider that originated the messages and for identification of a content of the messages;    a communication interface adapted to connect to an external device; and    a processor operably coupled to said receiver section and to said communication interface for processing said message,    the wireless communication unit characterised by a scanning function to detect and extract an instruction accompanying said message and to transfer said instruction to the processor.    
     
     
         24 . The wireless communication unit according to  claim 23 , wherein said processor, upon processing said instruction, is adapted to erase from a memory of said wireless communication unit previous messages from the Content Provider having the same content as the message.  
     
     
         25 . The wireless communication unit according to  claim 24 , wherein said memory is built-in in the wireless communication unit.  
     
     
         26 . The wireless communication unit according to  claim 23  further comprising: 
 a Man Machine Interface (MMI),    wherein said processor, upon processing said instruction, is adapted to render said message on said MMI.    
     
     
         27 . The wireless communication unit according to  claim 23  wherein said communication interface is adapted to connect to said external device using a short-range wireless connection.  
     
     
         28 - 36 . (canceled)